Reading Billy Collins

   The author has multiple attempts to get his class to understand a poem, but it is very difficult for many of them; which is what happens in many classrooms some student can not grasp the concepts of some poems. He attempts to let his pupils read and work their way through the poem. The students begin to struggle with the interpretation of the poem and try to force the meaning of the lines. The teacher is using them to convey the students are the ones struggling.

Death of a salesman

      The movie Death of a Salesman was mostly about a man, Willie Loman, whom had long fooled himself into the perception that a man's success was measure by how well-liked he was. He passed his thoughts down to his two sons, but in doing so gave them the wrong message, he only spoke of the treasure at the mountain top not the toiling trek up the mountain. His eldest son, Biff, developed the mentality that he was automatically the top dog, and had a hard life due to it. The other son, Hap, just worked to please his delusional father. The thought of the "American dream" pushed the father into a false reality. Once his salesman job deteriorated so did his mental stability he could not fathom the thought of no longer being liked. Although Willie die in the car-crash the death of a salesman had already occurred.

"Citizen Kane"

     In Citizen Kane although the main character of the movie was Charles Foster Kane, the movies was actually based of the very real and very powerful William Randolph Hearst who was a newspaper typhoon. Who was given away after his mother comes into fortune. In the movie Kane started as a young innocent young boy who enjoyed his home with his mother and father. Kane was showed as a young and particularly happy child while he lived with his parents, but as he grew older he grew more careless and frivolous with his fortune. The movies portrays the metamophosis of a man into a power crazed maniac. It was hard for Kane to know the value of money because he had always had it. The narrators were also unreliable because the stories were told from others' point of view and their are many thigs to affect their recollection such as old age, motifs, bad memory. Some people may want to make themselves a person of interest in their own stories, or may want to slander Kanes name. Overall it is a difficult task to tell the life story of one who no longer possesses life. 

"Their Eyes Were Watching God"

     In Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie Crawford, the main protagonist, was a young woman who lived with her grandmother in the south. She was a young woman who had to lear throughout her life that she controlled her own destiny. In the movie Janie can be caught in a few scenes peacfully gazing into the sky and when asked what she is doing she would reply, "Watching God". Whenever Janie was "Watching God", she was at peace with herself the moment was genuine and blissful. Nature represented a utopia it was where Janie could be care free.  Also Janie goes through three marriages demonstrating that relationships can not thrive without affection from both people.